Notes+for+4.26.14+meeting

We will meet for the final day of our 2013-2014 institute on Saturday, April 26th 2014, from 8:30am to 4:30 pm. The schedule for the day will involve the following:
 * Single spot journaling
 * Sharing with the group your progress on the assignment you completed in December 2013 outlining how you would incorporate Earth Partnership activities into your classroom
 * Planning for recruiting and teaching in advance of the August 2014 institute (to be held from 8/4 to 8/8 at the KVR)
 * Uploading your single spot observation photos to Google Maps
 * Conducting water quality testing to connect rain gardens to the larger watershed. This serves as a follow up to our watershed tour and rain garden design institute days.

To prepare for the day, please do the following:
 * Review the lesson plan you emailed to Claire in December 2013
 * Consider how you would recruit school teams and help teach at the August 2014 institute
 * Take photos from your single spot observation site (at your school or home) and save them as jpg files that we can upload to Google Maps
 * If you have waders, bring them along for water sampling. Please email Steve (slaubach@wisc.edu) if you need waders and let us know your foot size so we know how many to have on hand. If you are borrowing waders from the Kickapoo Reserve, please bring a change of clothes in case they have a slight leak.
 * Dress appropriately for being outside, including warm clothes if the forecast is for cool weather and breathable clothes, sunscreen, and sunglasses if the forecast is for warmer weather.

Please read the following articles from your institute binder (no discussion post required):
 * 1) Barry Lopez, "Story at Anaktuvik Pass: At the junction of landscape and narrative" (pages 2-119 to 2-122 in the binder)
 * 2) Robin Kimmerer, "Restoration and Reciprocity: The Contributions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge" (pages 2-84 to 2-88 in binder)

Click here to see a recording of a 4/10/14 Earth Partnership webinar featuring Kris Stepenuck, statewide coordinator of the Water Action Volunteers program and citizen science stream monitoring. There are also supplemental stream monitoring materials available at this link.